mikehollinger

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by mikehollinger 3y ago
> People just google “bob builder” anyway. Today they do. When a domain was $200 to register in the 90’s, people treated URLs like phone numbers were also treated at the time - to be written down, memorized and then typed precisely in (w
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
> Output sanitization makes sense, though. Part of my job is to see how tech will behave in the hands of real users. For fun I needed to randomly assign 27 people into 12 teams. I asked a few different chat models to do this vs doing it
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
I really liked ThreadX when I was working with it a while ago. Calling it an "operating system" is charitable in the sense that it's an interrupt service routine and a bunch of functions to handle 'creating threads'
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
> But you weren't trustworthy. Yup. I preface a statement about once a week by saying “there’s a difference between ‘I can’t say’ and ‘I don’t know.’ In this case, …” It’s been useful. It helps to communicate without breaking bonds
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
Agreed. This isn’t actually that useful of a guide in the first place. Tbh the most basic question is: “are you innovating inside the AI box or outside the AI box?” If inside - this guide doesn’t really share anything practical. Like if you
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
I like C4. I'd previously discounted the "context" diagrams that inevitably show "User -{do their job}-> System-of-Record" as useless. Now I see the point. I'm working through a new piece of system design fo
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
> Run a service in your machine in your desk, pass your IP to a friend and that was all you needed. Of course, there were security implications and IP are a scarce resource now, but I liked the way it was then. When I was a 1337 h4x0r as
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
> Is that actually true for SSDs? Not precisely. The logical view of a page living at some address of flash is not the reality. Pages get moved around the physical device as writes happen. The drive itself maintains a map of what address
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
How prescient is the "Hidden Technical Debt" [1] paper from ~8 yrs ago compared to this? See the top of pg4 for a figure that I've personally found to be useful in explaining all the stuff necessary to put together a reasonab
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
> Is this specific to Excel? No. And yet they still have situations where excel itself will differ from ieee 754. See https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/office/troubleshoot/excel/...
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
> Excel still doesn't have any way of doing unit tests or confirming that the content is valid and as it should. I make this point when chatting with new team members that say "let's just use X," without really under
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
JFYI: you can skip the Apple middle man and just open a Marcus.com account. It’s Goldman Sachs on the back end. Works great. No drama. Decent app. Reasonable website. Same rates as far as I can see.
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
> In the true Murican spirit you can compensate natural abilities with "hard work" -- for a time. Yup. I’ve done this and seen it happen in others. When I started my career, I could stay up late or pull an all nighter to focus
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
Trello probably has more lawyers, more security professionals, and more QA than “Meeting Swipe Corporation” has employees?
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by mikehollinger 3y ago
> 6-8 weeks is kinda weird though, unless you‘re extremely senior and on critical path for a lot of things, or you‘re using up accrued PTO. If you're a leader in a team, definitely give more notice. It's the professional thing
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
The issue to me here is that code is a literary work. Literary works are copywritable. Except that AI generated works without human authorship aren’t per this. Interestingly this came up when copilot was announced and one comment or another
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
I noticed this as well. The implication to generated code is pretty astounding tho. What about all those (c) foo 2023 prologs you see all over the place? Will there be arguments that specific lines weren’t written by a human so therefore th
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
Entertainingly I -used- to do this at Walgreens, except now they started asking to verify the zip code associated with the account. :-)
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
I’d be curious to see if the engine’s ability to search / crawl content is now forming a feedback loop, where articles like this are now influencing the system’s outputs. In theory it’s stateless, except that it’s not — it’s subject to
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
1Password has been pleasantly useful and non-enterprisey but still useful to teams and individuals.
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
> What is a hardware thread? I thought threads were a software abstraction? This is a great question! Threads are a programming abstraction, but not just in software. Processors present an "architected state" to the programmer
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
Love it. I actually use Excel which even power users take for granted to highlight that people really need to understand the underlying system, or the system needs to have guard rails to prevent people from stubbing their toes. Microsoft
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
Honestly pretty well. One of our colleagues took aggressive advantage of the ping pong tables at the office (in the before times) every afternoon after lunch. I’d noticed as had some others. I had a short talk with that person about the fac
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
“The Effective Manager” by the people behind Manager Tools (a great podcast) is a really, really good view of this. Re: Communication, this book starts there and builds upon that foundation. It’s targeted at line managers, but anyone in a l
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
My first real job was to work with another intern to write a “tool to keep track of who’s been trained on what” since they were doing it with a spreadsheet. This was in 2001. We wrote it on the LAMP stack which gave us the full suite of wha
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
> Could make for a very interesting control scheme for an adventure game. Zork and QWOP's lovechild? :-)
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
Oh absolutely! I guess I'm confusing my own point - which is / was that in some places cell towers are showing up -before- wireline connections.
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
1. This brought me back. When she clicked into the "mall" and the navigation was an imagemap with hotlinks [1] going off to a flower shop, I immediately thought of a website that some guy payed me to build back in the 90's wh
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
Engineer turned engineering leader here. "Good Strategy / Bad Strategy" by Richard Rumelt - An awesome book on strategy, which explains very plainly how to construct a reasonable strategy, and see signs of bad strategy. It (a
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by mikehollinger 4y ago
Oh! I am just (next week) wrapping up leave! First - congratulations! My husband and I just had our first kiddo earlier this year and went through a similar "what do we do" sort of moment. We managed our time and workload by going

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